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foul weather
That which reduces a ship to snug-sail.
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A name given to the Gulf Stream from such a volume of warm water occasioning great perturbations in ...
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Foul
·superl Ugly; homely; poor.
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foul
To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him.
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foul
Generally used in opposition to clear, and implies entangled, embarrassed, or contrary to: as "a shi...
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Flag
·noun A flat stone used for paving.
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Flag
(Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus ...
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flag
A groat. CANT.--The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alludi...
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flag
A general name for the distinguishing colours of any nation. Also, a certain banner by which an admi...
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Flag
There are two Hebrew words rendered "flag" in our Bible:
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Weather
·noun Storm; tempest.
II. Weather ·noun A light rain; a shower.
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weather
[from the Anglo-Saxon wæder, the temperature of the air]. The state of the atmosphere with regard to...
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Foul-mouthed
·adj Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.
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Foul-spoken
·adj Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language.
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foul-mouthed
Abusive.
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foul air
May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...
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foul anchor
An anchor is said to be foul, or fouled, either when it hooks some impediment under water, or when t...
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foul berth
When a ship anchors in the hawse of another she gives the latter a foul berth; or she may anchor on ...
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foul bill
See bill of health.
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foul bottom
A ship to which sea-weed, shells, or other encumbrances adhere. Also, the bottom of the sea if rocky...
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foul coast
One beset with reefs and breakers, offering dangerous impediments to navigation.
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foul fish
Applied to salmon in the spawning state, or such as have not for the current year made their way to ...
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foul ground
Synonymous with foul bottom.
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foul hawse
When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside th...
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foul rope
A rope entangled or unfit for immediate use.
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foul wind
That which prevents a ship from laying her course.
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running foul
A vessel, by accident or bad steerage, falling in contact with another under sail. (See athwart // h...
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Palmetto flag
·add. ·- Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in Novem...
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Pilot flag
·add. ·- The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union j...
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Water flag
·- A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.
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blue flag
He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...
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australian flag
n.
Hot climate and countrywork have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a beltor leather ...
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cooper's-flag
n.
another name in New Zealandfor Raupo (q.v.).
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native flag
n.
See under flax, native,and flax, New Zealand.
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bloody flag
A large red flag.
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flag-officer
A term synonymous with admiral.
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flag-share
The admiral's share (one-eighth) in all captures made by any vessels within the limits of his comman...
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flag-ship
A ship bearing an admiral's flag.
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flag-staff
In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...
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sick-flag
The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...
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yellow-flag
The signal of quarantine.
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Fair-weather
·adj Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend.
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Weather map
·add. ·- A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an ex...
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Weather signal
·add. ·- Any signal giving information about the weather. The system used by the United States Weath...
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Weather station
·add. ·- A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminatin...
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Weather-beaten
·adj Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weathe...
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Weather-bit
·noun A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
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Weather-bitten
·adj Eaten into, defaced, or worn, by exposure to the weather.
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Weather-board
·vt To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, ·etc.
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Weather-bound
·adj Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
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Weather-driven
·adj Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
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Weather-fend
·vt To defend from the weather; to <<Shelter>>.
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weather-breeder
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clittery weather
changeable weather, inclinable to be stormy. Hamp.
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cluttery weather
changeable weather, inclinable to be stormy. Hamp.
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leasty weather
dull, wet, dirty. Norf. and Suff.
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rawky weather
raw, cold. North.
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a-weather
The position of the helm when its tiller is moved to the windward side of the ship, in the direction...
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blowing weather
A nautical term for a continuance of strong gales. (See gale.)
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boldering weather
Cloudy and thundery.
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fair-weather
That to which a ship may carry the small sails.
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gage, weather
When one ship is to windward of another she is said to have the weather-gage of her; or if in the op...
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sprat weather
The dark days of November and December, so called from that being the most favourable season for cat...
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weather-anchor
That lying to windward, by which a ship rides when moored.
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weather-beam
A direction at right angles with the keel, on the weather side of the ship.
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weather-bitt
Is that which holds the weather-cable when the ship is moored.
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weather-board
That side of the ship which is to windward.
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weather-boards
Pieces of plank placed in the ports of a ship when laid up in ordinary; they are in an inclined posi...
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weather-borne
Pressed by wind and sea.
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weather-bound
Detained by foul winds; our forefathers used the term wæder fæst.
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weather-breeders
Certain appearances in the heavens which indicate a gale, as wind-galls, fog-dogs, &c.
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weather-cloths
Coverings of painted canvas or tarpaulin, used to preserve the hammocks when stowed, from injury by ...
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weather-coil
When a ship has her head brought about, so as to lie that way which her stern did before, as by the ...
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weather-coiling
A ship resuming her course after being taken aback; rounding off by a stern-board, and coming up to ...
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weather-eye
"Keep your weather-eye open," be on your guard; look out for squalls.
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weather-gage
A vessel has the weather-gage of another when she is to windward of her. Metaphorically, to get the ...
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weather-gall
"A weather-gall at morn,
Fine weather all gone."
(See wind-gall.)
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weather-glass
A familiar term for the barometer.
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weather-gleam
A peculiar clear sky near the horizon, with great refraction.
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weather-go
The end of a rainbow, as seen in the morning in showery weather.
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weather-head
The secondary rainbow.
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weather-helm
A ship is said to carry a weather-helm when she is inclined to gripe, or come too near the wind, and...
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weather-lurch
A heavy roll to windward.
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weather-rolls
Those inclinations, so inviting to coming waves, which a ship makes to windward in a heavy sea; the ...
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weather-ropes
An early term for those which were tarred.
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weather-sheets
Those fast to the weather-clues of the sails.
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weather-shore
The shore which lies to windward of a ship.
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weather-side
That side of a ship on which the wind blows; it is the promenade for superior officers. (See also it...
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weather-tide
The reverse of lee-tide. That which, running contrary to the direction of the wind, by setting again...
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weather-warning
The telegraphic cautionary warning given by hoisting the storm-drum on receiving the forecast.
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weather-wheel
The position of the man who steers a large ship, from his standing on the weather-side of the wheel....
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winnold-weather
An eastern-county term for stormy March weather.
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flag of truce
A white flag, hoisted to denote a wish to parley between the belligerent parties, but so frequently ...
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hoisting the flag
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hard-a-weather!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder on the lee-side of the stern-post, whichever...
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taut weather-helm
See taut helm
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fall foul of, to
To reprimand severely. (See fall aboard of, to.)
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fly of a flag
The breadth from the staff to the extreme end that flutters loose in the wind. If an ensign, the par...
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make bad weather, to
A ship rolling, pitching, or leaking violently in a gale.
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weather one's difficulties, to
A colloquial phrase meaning to contend with and surmount troubles.
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weather the cape, to
To become experienced; as it implies sailing round Cape Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope.
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walk the weather gangway netting
A night punishment in a man-of-war for those of the watch who have missed their muster.
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flag-side of a split fish
The side without the bone.
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